Goldylocks zone planet (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, October 01, 2010, 06:02 (4959 days ago) @ David Turell

I think there is a confusion here between the possibility to support life, and the possibility to evolve life from nothing. Even if we accept abiogenesis as true, the fact that the planet is tidally locked and has no independent rotation in relation to its sun would cause a host of issues I think. At the very least, I would say that harboring carbon based life forms would be highly unlikely. The variables we need to survive and thrive are too many, and the earth's distance and orbit around the sun is just a tiny fraction of that.